Gain the tools and guidance to create a culture of high reliability and safety within your organization. This one-day, intensive workshop provides hospital safety professionals the strategies to reliably deliver effective interventions and refine organizational culture to support overall safety...
With the biting cold and heavy snow that struck the East Coast this month, and with more on the way healthcare organizations should take a look at their preparation plans for blizzards and snowstorms.
Compliance with the Conditions of Participation (CoP) is required to meet Medicare and Medicaid hospital regulations. While CMS posts updates to the CoPs on its website, they are often difficult to search and lengthy, not to mention tedious to print.
CMS is clearing up recent confusion on what medical providers can text each other. The agency confirmed care team members are allowed to text patient information over a secure messaging app. However, texting medical orders is still verboten.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 1
Review your policies and procedures for treating suicidal patients in general acute inpatient and emergency care areas following newly finalized recommendations from The Joint Commission.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 1
George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM, CHFM, CHSP, who had served as director of engineering since The Joint Commission established its engineering department six years ago, resigned from the post effective October 9, 2017. But the time had come, he says, to find a more hands-on...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 29, Issue 1
In September, The Joint Commission published Sentinel Event Alert 58, warning healthcare organizations about the dangers of inadequate handoff communications.
